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• Add whatever you want at the bottom. 
• Send it home. 
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Dear mom and dad, little sister, aunt Min, the dog, and anyone else who'll listen,

I don't want to worry you, but you need to know it's getting really hard to maintain my strength.  What with all the walks in the mountains, the mountains of work, all the work to keep my room clean, the cleaning details,...  You know.  Life at the Academy.  The doctor says that if I can just find something that I can keep in my room to eat whenever I can tear myself away from duty, I'll probably be all right.   So, knowing that you want the best for me, I've compiled this little list.   Could you find it in your heart to send me any of these things?

___ instant oatmeal, plain and flavored
___ cup of soup
___ ramen noodle soups
___ cheese and peanut butter crackers and the like
___ freeze dried camping food
___ a jar of Goober grape or just peanut butter or nutella
___ instant rice with seasoning packets
___ Poptarts
___ Tang
___ hot chocolate individual packets
___ Pringles
___ Chex mix
___ fruit roll ups, banana chips, dried fruit
___ granola and granola bars and breakfast bars
___ cookies and brownies
___ sturdy plastic bowl large enough to make these things, but small enough
to stash away, mug, spoon/fork/knife.

___ cough medicine

___ Ibuprofen

___ small sewing kit (with white and AF blue thread, and safety pins and needles)

___ Shout wipes

Thanks, guys, I really appreciate it.

Your loving son, daughter, friend,

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